The EFI (Extensible Firmware Interface) system partition or ESP is a partition on a data storage device (usually a hard disk drive or solid-state drive)...

defined as <EFI_SYSTEM_PARTITION>\EFI\BOOT\BOOT<MACHINE_TYPE_SHORT_NAME>.EFI; for example, the file path to the OS loader on an x86-64 system is \efi\boot\bootx64...

booting from GPT partitions only on systems with EFI firmware, but FreeBSD and most Linux distributions can boot from GPT partitions on systems with either...

system kernel image or bootloader or a completely separate piece of software.: 136  EFI system partition is the same as BIOS BP, but is loaded by EFI...

which is used by systems based on EFI. The EFI System partition holds a filesystem and files used by the UEFI, while the BIOS boot partition is used in BIOS-based...

bootmgr file from an active partition. On systems with UEFI firmware, UEFI invokes bootmgfw.efi from an EFI system partition at startup, starting the Windows...

computer firmware standard EFI system partition École Française d'Islamabad, a French international school in Pakistan EFI Automotive, a French automotive...

record (EBR) Volume boot record (VBR) GUID Partition Table (GPT) BIOS Boot partition EFI System partition Boot engineering extension record (BEER) Host...

special-purpose partitions can be allocated from a portion of the space reserved in the MSR partition. The MSR should be located after the EFI System Partition (ESP)...

Interface (EFI).[not verified in body] With the change in processor architecture to x86, Macs gained the ability to boot into x86-native operating systems (such...

org. Disk partitioning EFI system partition (ESP), a reserved partition on GPT disk Microsoft Reserved Partition (MSR), a reserved partition on GPT disk...

intended to specify the file system the partition contains or to flag special access methods used to access these partitions (e.g. special CHS mappings...

and file system support) and shows the menu. /efi/<distro>/grubx64.efi (for x64 UEFI systems) is installed as a file in the EFI System Partition, and booted...

sectors, UEFI system loads the boot loader (EFI application file in USB disk or in the EFI System Partition) directly, and the OS kernel is loaded by the...

Entertainment Software Publishing, a Japanese video-game publisher EFI system partition, a partition used by machines that adhere to the Extensible Firmware Interface...

the user partition their disk if they currently have only a primary HFS partition, an EFI System Partition, and a Mac OS X Recovery Partition. Thus, for...

containing a FAT filesystem, the filesystem being an EFI System Partition containing the usual \EFI directory. The image should be marked for "no emulation"...

bootloader or an EFI system partition cannot be encrypted (see Full disk encryption#The boot key problem). On mobile Linux systems, postmarketOS has...

next-stage bootloader (such as BOOTMGR and GRUB2) from EFI System Partition directly. In IBM System/360 and successors, the LOAD operator control initiates...

the EFI system partition in the boot stage of EFI-compliant computers. FAT is still used in drives expected to be used by multiple operating systems, such...

loads the boot loader (EFI application file in USB disk or in the EFI system partition) directly. Additionally, the UEFI specification also contains "secure...

mostly different manner. See EFI system partition § macOS and the two types of booting for Apple's BootX bootloader. The System Folder is less protected than...

[citation needed] On UEFI systems, including most modern PCs, the EFI system partition is often mounted at /boot/, /efi/ or /boot/efi/. "3.5. /boot : Static...

the second real-world bootkit after FinSpy known to persist on the EFI System Partition in the form of a patched Windows Boot Manager. In 2021, ESET released...

Apple Partition Map (APM) is a partition scheme used to define the low-level organization of data on disks formatted for use with 68k and PowerPC Macintosh...

amd64 processor EFI system partition for installation of rEFInd 4 GiB of RAM 30 GiB of free hard drive space on a primary partition for a desktop installation...

Chameleon bootloader and a number of kernel extensions installed on the EFI System partition to allow them to boot Mac OS X Mountain Lion. If an Apple software...

media storage devices with files such as .iso, .wim, .img, .vhd(x), and .efi. Once Ventoy is installed on a USB drive, new installation files can be added...

"Supported Operating Systems". neosmart.net. NeoSmart Technologies. Host Operating Systems. Al-Qudsi, Mahmoud. "EasyBCD 2.3: Windows 10, EFI, and much, much...

longer recognizes USB drives. Non-Macintosh systems, notably Windows and Linux, may not be typically booted in EFI mode and thus USB booting may be limited...